Career Guidance: Why Emotional Intelligence Is the Most Important Career Skill You Were Never Taught
For many years, academic excellence and technical skills were the base of career success. Students worked on getting better grades, adults spent money and time on obtaining certification, and organizations employed qualified and experienced candidates. However, although these elements still matter, nowadays an employee should have not only qualifications but emotional intelligence too. Understanding one's emotions, communicating with people effectively, coping with stress, being flexible, and building relationships define one's progress in the professional field. Many professionals realize that in spite of having excellent qualification, they face conflicts at work, self-doubt, burnout, or lack of satisfaction from the chosen job. This problem is usually not connected with poor knowledge because it is often the result of emotional and interpersonal skills that were not developed during education. Here is where professional career guidance, counseling services, and counseling ...